Senior Director, Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage multiple software engineering teams, including individual contributors and engineering managers.
• Negotiate the distribution of features across releases for all software teams, empowering engineers with the freedom and responsibility to own their work.
• Lead the overall software development process, diving in and out of the trenches to create processes that enable high levels of execution.
• Collaborate with other members of Pickle’s leadership team to shape the long-term vision and direction of the company's software development efforts.
• Partner with Product & Program Management to track progress toward each release as well as any changes in deadlines or deliverables.
• Identify gaps within the software team, whether structural or skill-based, and collaborate with People Operations to fill, upskill, or outsource as needed.
• Oversee the software engineering budget, making data-driven decisions about investments in tools, technology, and personnel.
• Manage relationships with external vendors and service providers as necessary.

Skills & Experience:

• An engineer with 10+ years of experience in a software engineering role, with progressively increasing responsibility over time.
• A strategic people leader with 7+ years in a management role within software engineering.
• A talented roboticist with several years of experience in developing products, ideally in the warehouse automation and/or supply chain space.
• Experienced with a variety of modern programming languages. Can include: C/C++, Python, Javascript/Typescript, Rust. 
• Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML technologies to real-world hardware and systems, with a focus on scalable, reliable solutions.
• Strong understanding of ML applications across devices, embedded software, robotics, and related domains, with an emphasis on feasibility and impact.
• Proven expertise in applying SOLID principles to create robust, maintainable, and adaptable software architectures within agile development environments.
• Skilled in applying best practices for integrating modern machine learning and AI technologies.
• A world-class coach, mentor and leader; You are able to help engineers thrive and can inspire teams to achieve impossible things. 
• Able to manage staff from diverse backgrounds and career paths, from experienced, expert-level engineers to early-career startup developers. 
• Willing and able to work from our Charlestown, MA office at least 3x per week. Pickle values time spent collaborating face-to-face, both with our human colleagues and our robots.